Question Getting Quantum Fiber. What wifi router should I get for VLAN tagging?

[fcar1999ta]

Looking for inputs on which wifi router I should get to connect to the Quantum Fiber ONT. Preferably 10 Gig WAN port since Quantum is rolling out 8Gbps.

 

[kanewolf]

Looking for inputs on which wifi router I should get to connect to the Quantum Fiber ONT. Preferably 10 Gig WAN port since Quantum is rolling out 8Gbps.

Hpefully you are not getting 8Gb service. Why? Because 99% of people will not be utilizing it most of the time.
The UniFI UXG Pro has 10GE ports. If you are getting high speed WAN, I would not recommend a WIFI router. Dedicated router and WIFI access points.

 

[bill001g]

You will quickly find most sites like say steam have artificial limits, likely to protect their site from a couple people with large internet using all their bandwidth on some sever. Even with 1gbit internet some game refuse to download even close to that fast. Not sure why some download faster than others.

Maybe if you are one of those torrent guys a internet faster than 1gbit might be of use. For the vast majority of people 100mbps is more than enough.

If you still really are determined to do this I would also look at a company called mikrotik. They sell a number of devices that have 10gbit ports for a price a home user can afford. You would have to dig through the specs to see the actual throughputs.
Although all routers than have 1gbit ports can run 1gbit wan/lan 10gbit is very fast. The NAT function is done by asic rather than cpu but even asic has limits depending on how much they spend to make them.

 

[fcar1999ta]

I just want the future expandability. It is pretty common for my house to have 3 XBoxes and 4 PCs gaming or streaming at the same time

 

[kanewolf]

I just want the future expandability. It is pretty common for my house to have 3 XBoxes and 4 PCs gaming or streaming at the same time

That is still less than 500Mbit. Gaming requires very little bandwidth. Streaming 4k is typically less than 40Mbit.
If it were me, I would look for 2.5Gbit rather than 10GE.

 

[USAFRet]

I just want the future expandability. It is pretty common for my house to have 3 XBoxes and 4 PCs gaming or streaming at the same time

Trivially done, even within gigabit service.

People overestimate their needs (even future needs), because the ISPs have told them so.

 

[thestryker]

Once your service gets to ~1Gbps you really should be looking at a dedicated device for the internet itself. Wireless routers are notorious for not being very good at the routing side of things. You can DIY or buy pre-built routers Ubiquity, Netgate and MikroTik are just the first few that came to mind.

As for the bandwidth of your internet connection I'd advise doing some logging or just analyze the traffic you're currently seeing during peak usage. I'd be shocked if you even needed a 1Gbps connection.

 

[fcar1999ta]

I think I am just going to give the 360 Wireless that comes with Quantum Fiber a shot.